The recipient of The Game Awards 2024 “Game Changer” award, Amir Satvat, is currently finding himself the target of online hate and abuse. This year, The Game Awards introduced a new award to recognize Satvat, who stepped up during this historically difficult time in the games industry and had a significant impact.
In the past few years, layoffs within the games industry have reached unprecedented heights, and the trend seems unrelenting. According to Satvat, 34,000 jobs have been lost in just three years. Many affected people will have seen a Google Sheets document that began being shared on social media a couple of years back, which provided a thorough and regularly updated list of games companies that were hiring, sortable by function and location and providing links directly to job application pages. This project, the brainchild of Amir Satvat, morphed into a full-fledged website where games industry job seekers and posters can find each other, and it has so far resulted in nearly 3,000 people gaining employment.
Tequila Works is the latest game development studio to suffer layoffs as unfortunate and unexpected shake-ups continue across the industry.
Amir Satvat, a game developer with a head for numbers and...
